Men Get More Promiscuous And Violent When More Women Are Around, Study Says

Trending News: Men Fight More When Lots Of Women Are Around

Why Is This Important?

Because you'd expect things to get more violent when there are less women around, not the other way around.

Long Story Short

When guys are living in an area where there are more women than men, they tend to be more promiscuous and end up committing more crimes and getting in more fights, a new study finds. When there are less women, they tend to be on their best behavior.

Long Story

Last call has come and gone, the lights are on at the bar and the streets are flooded with people. This is when, particularly in this society, guys tend to throw down. I always thought the reason for this was because guys drank too much (a no-brainer), but also because they're pissed that they didn't end up with a lady at the end of the night. It turns out that a new study backs up my theory and suggests that when men are approaching more, a.ka. being more promiscuous, they tend to get more violent.

The study published in Human Naturefound that in places in the U.S. where women outnumber men, guys are more violent because they're more promiscuous. When males outnumber females, a.k.a. slim pickings, crime and violence goes down, probably because the guys are on their best behavior.

Ryan Schacht of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and his colleagues came to this conclusion by analyzing the gender data for all 3,082 US counties in 2010 and contrasting it with crime data from the same year, according to New Scientist. In the counties where the men outnumbered the women, there were lower rates of murders and assaults as well as fewer sex-related crimes, including rapes, sex offences and prostitution.

“When women are rare they become a valued resource and this gives them more bargaining power over what they expect from a relationship,” said Schacht to New Scientist. “But when women are abundant, men become less committed to single partners and more interested in pursuing multiple relationships. This brings men into conflict with each other in response to their more uncommitted, promiscuous mating orientation.”

The same thing (more women = more violence) has been found in aminal studies. “Recent work in animals also shows quite similar findings to ours, that when females are abundant and males rare, males are more violently competitive, more promiscuous and less likely to invest in offspring,” Schacht added.

Hear that guys? We're nothing more than raging horny animals.

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